Zirakzigil
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I remember playing those games on the original playstation. Didnt realize that franchise was still around.
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I remember playing those games on the original playstation. Didnt realize that franchise was still around.
Buddy Bizarre
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I remember playing those games on the original playstation. Didnt realize that franchise was still around.
Playstation has a library of old games you can download. I don't know if I'd necessarily say the "franchise is still around" but it's accessible
ALso, check out this series on Peacock. Very well done. My buddy and I were laughing nearly the entire time
Ogrezilla
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I'm hoping the series sparks a new game.Playstation has a library of old games you can download. I don't know if I'd necessarily say the "franchise is still around" but it's accessible
ALso, check out this series on Peacock. Very well done. My buddy and I were laughing nearly the entire time
Deport Ogie
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We played a good bit of twisted metal black 4 player my freshman year in our lobby. College gaming was the best. We just set up in the main lobby freshmen year and random people came and joined different games and that’s how we made friendsI’m sure it also repelled some folks from us but if gaming is a problem then I guess that’s for the best. Hell watching office space in the lobby is where I met my wife
Dating myself and whatnot but Goldeneye was still a big distraction when I was a freshman. We would commandeer one of the big tv's they used to show campus news and hook the N64 in. Play for hours instead of calc homework. Goldeneye may be the reason I had to transition out of the school of engineering, come to think of it.
Ogrezilla
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Goldeneye was middle and high school for me; Gamecube and PS2 era was high school and most of the college days. At least at my budget it was
But I played a LOT of Goldeneye and Perfect Dark in high school. Did you ever try Perfect Dark? It was great. Not Bond, but essentially a sequel to Goldeneye made by the same folks.
Zirakzigil
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Never really saw the appeal of that game. It was decent, but not good enough for the cult following it got.
Ogrezilla
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I think it's the first time most people ever played a multiplayer FPS, at least 4 player. Probably one of the first times most played 4 player anything. I think that went a long way for it. I still stand by the opinion that there's just nothing a single player game can do to be more fun than even a decent couch multiplayer game with friends. And personally I would stretch that to online multiplayer as long as it's still with friends instead of randoms.
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Zirakzigil
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Ogrezilla
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Zirakzigil
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Ogrezilla
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That's the one that consumed my life in high school, along with StarCraft and Diablo 2. We even got a sponsorship for a team in Counterstrike for a little while. No money, but they payed for us to have our own server
Sadly they have all but killed community servers for games like that, and pure matchmaking really isn't as fun.
Zirakzigil
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CoD was betterThat's the one that consumed my life in high school, along with StarCraft and Diablo 2. We even got a sponsorship for a team in Counterstrike for a little while. No money, but they payed for us to have our own server
Deport Ogie
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This is pretty much it. Think of all the youtube douchebags who made a career monetizing the popularity of battle royale like Fortnite...that was Goldeneye for us old schmucks. Online multiplayer required a dedicated LAN and enough dorks to set it up and still desire to play. Previous games, if they included mutliplayer at all, were 2 player and often co-op rather than conflict.
You whippersnappers don't understand the utter thrill the first time you got to blast your buddies by just oversaturating the facility map with proximity mines. And then the utter rage when they pulled the same trick on you.
Add: I still hold that one of the best all-time couch multiplayers that no one has ever heard of was an NES game called Super Dodge Ball (I think, memory fades on the actual name) But you picked a country and each team had players with "special" throws and then you just set up and played dodgeball, just trying to use your special throws to just bean the living **** out of the other guy.
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Zirakzigil
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Ogrezilla
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I remember getting cable Internet in 1998 and feeling like a god among my friends. But getting into quake and unreal tournament and then counter strike did take some of the shine from goldeneye. Probably why I was less impressed with the halo multiplayer too. It was good, but there’s only four of us? The co-op campaign was fantastic though.
This is pretty much it. Think of all the youtube douchebags who made a career monetizing the popularity of battle royale like Fortnite...that was Goldeneye for us old schmucks. Online multiplayer required a dedicated LAN and enough dorks to set it up and still desire to play. Previous games, if they included mutliplayer at all, were 2 player and often co-op rather than conflict.
You whippersnappers don't understand the utter thrill the first time you got to blast your buddies by just oversaturating the facility map with proximity mines. And then the utter rage when they pulled the same trick on you.
Zirakzigil
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Unreal Tournament was classic. We set up a server for that in high school. Had it in the graphics arts lab. Used to have 10-15 of us, including teachers, killing each other at lunch time.
Big McLargehuge
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First console shooter worth half a damn. My only previous experience with the genre was the 32X version of Doom.
We didn't even have a computer at home until 1999...and I didn't have one that could play anything more complicated than Doom until ~2004.
GoldenEye was pretty well rendered obsolete by the time Halo came out, but that was the entry point to the genre for me and pretty much all of my friends.
I never could get used to using a mouse & keyboard for anything twitchier than your Civilizations or Cities: Skylines. Incidentally I don't even slightly get the appeal of CoD or CS...though that probably has more to do with my absolute disdain for online multiplayer. Couch multiplayer I was all-in for. Online? f*** off and leave me alone
Zirakzigil
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Big McLargehuge
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Zirakzigil
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15-20 years ago?
Nope. Battlefield, CoD, Unreal Tournament, Age of Empires, Sim games and combat flight simulators were my jam.
Ogrezilla
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Online with random matchmaking I agree. But online with friends is still great, especially with voice chat these days. Even if it’s 80% as good as couch, it’s about 2000% more feasible as adults. Even something as simple as among us is a blast with 10 actual friends.First console shooter worth half a damn. My only previous experience with the genre was the 32X version of Doom.
We didn't even have a computer at home until 1999...and I didn't have one that could play anything more complicated than Doom until ~2004.
GoldenEye was pretty well rendered obsolete by the time Halo came out, but that was the entry point to the genre for me and pretty much all of my friends.
I never could get used to using a mouse & keyboard for anything twitchier than your Civilizations or Cities: Skylines. Incidentally I don't even slightly get the appeal of CoD or CS...though that probably has more to do with my absolute disdain for online multiplayer. Couch multiplayer I was all-in for. Online? f*** off and leave me alone
Online gaming back before voice chat is how I learned to type though. You have to be quick to chat while playing StarCraft or counter strike but trash talk is an important part of the game
LOGiK
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Since we are on K-film viewing streak and we will continue this weekend with OLDBOY... and sunday I believe it is THE HURT (2012 dutch with mads ver)
In the que/hopper would be INCENDIES which is french... not sure about that one - haven't looked into it as much as the previous two.
In the que/hopper would be INCENDIES which is french... not sure about that one - haven't looked into it as much as the previous two.
Big McLargehuge
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Buddy Bizarre
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This is more of a criticism of the media vs any political side, but man the media is really boning their reports from Gaza. I mean stuff that is flat out false (like the hospital bombing) is getting front page action. I can't believe this basic fact checking is getting past editors and all the other eyes in a newsroom. It's bonkers
Turns out that one of the NYT's on-the-ground reporters in Gaza who covered the hospital story was previously fired for sharing pro-Hitler memes and openly supporting Hamas.
Can't make this shit up.
Turns out that one of the NYT's on-the-ground reporters in Gaza who covered the hospital story was previously fired for sharing pro-Hitler memes and openly supporting Hamas.
Can't make this shit up.
Big McLargehuge
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Being first has mattered far more than being right for a long time now. We're f***ed as a species.
